Advocacy Successes
- $6.50 DSP wage rate increase since 2020
- Over 1,200 members of the Clearbrook Advocacy Network
- 5 Self-Advocacy Groups
- 2 Advocacy Days in 2 years
- 3 legislative breakfasts in 3 years
- Thousands of advocacy actions taken each year
FY23 Advocacy Successes
- $1.00/hour increase in DSP wages
- $94.8 million for the Guidehouse Implementation
- $45 million to annualize FY22 Guidehouse investments
- $26.3 million dedicated to provide care to 700 individuals on the PUNS list
- $15.5 million COLA increase for community based services
- $28.8 million for temporary COVID relief and COLA increases.
- Started our self-advocacy program
- First virtual breakfast, with 9 legislators in attendance.
FY24 Advocacy Successes
- $2.50/hour increase for DSP wages
- $56.7 million to annualize FY23 Guidehouse investments
- $40 million to increase Early Intervention service capacity
- $10 million to expand regionality factor to Community Day Services
- $26 million to annualize FY23 Ligas Placements and for FY24 Ligas Placements
- $27.6 million for rate adjustment for home-based services.
- $12.5 million re-appropriation from FY23 supplemental funding for one-time DSP investments
- $22.8 million in funding to begin implementing the Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative
- $10 million for a state-based health insurance marketplace to help expand healthcare access
- Over $400 million dollars for various mental and behavioral health grants and programs.
- First Advocacy Day in Springfield, meeting with 9 legislators.
- Second legislative breakfast, meeting with 13 legislators.
FY25 Advocacy Successes
- $1.00/hour increase for DSP wages
- Prevented a $87.7 million cut on DSP hours
- $60 million for State Operated Developmental Centers
- $3 million for 20 additional medical bed hold days
- Reimbursement for telehealth services
- $7.5 million investment into the Behavioral Health Student Loan Repayment Program
- $50 million appropriation for Mental Health Block Grant, with a $13.3 million increase in Mental Health grants
- $11 million subject to federal matching funds for psychiatric rate add-ons
- $40 million to develop over 90 new Permanent Supportive Housing units
- $12.5 million to create 500 new scattered site PSH units
- $30 million for increased Medicaid mental health rates
- Advocacy Day in Springfield, meeting 14 legislators.
- Third annual legislative breakfast with 14 legislators.